Dionne Searcey

Dionne Searcey joined The New York Times as an economics writer in April 2014.

Before joining The Times, Ms. Searcey spent nine years at The Wall Street Journal where she was an investigative reporter and also covered national legal affairs and the telecom industry. Prior to that she covered politics at Newsday, the statehouse and education beats at The Seattle Times as well as crime and criminal courts for the Chicago Tribune and the City News Bureau of Chicago.

She has covered a range of topics including victims of gang warfare in Chicago, a fiscal crisis in Long Island, checkpoint killings of civilians in Iraq, patent disputes, insider trading issues, asbestos litigation fraud, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. Her feature stories have focused on moss thieves in national forests, a record-breaking hail stone and a rivalry between a traveling pancake man and waffle man.

Ms. Searcey was raised in Nebraska and received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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